Patrick Bishop

Profile: Full name: Patrick Bishop Area of interest: International relations Journals/Organisation: (formerly of) The Daily Telegraph - left the paper in February 2007 Email: patrickbishop2001@hotmail.com Personal website: Website: PatrickBishop.net Blog: Representation: email Richard Foreman for further information about books, events, etc - richardforeman.chalke@hotmail.co.uk Networks:

Biography: About: Has been a foreign correspondent since 1982 covering numerous wars and conflicts around the world. In the last five years he has emerged as a highly regarded military historian. Began his career covering the British re-capture of the Falkands 25 years ago. Since then he has reported from the front line on almost every major war of the era mainly for the Daily Telegraph. He was the paper’s correspondent in the Middle East and Paris and served as its foreign editor from 1995-97 Education: Wimbledon College; Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Career: The Observer: Northern Ireland correspondent, also reported on the Falklands War; joined The Sunday Telegraph in 1986, moved to The Daily Telegraph as Middle East correspondent, going on to report on conflicts in Africa, Bosnia, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, both Gulf wars, and most recently Afghanistan, becoming the The Daily Telegraph's foreign editor and leading foreign correspondent, before leaving the paper in February 2007 see biography at patrickbishop.net see also Another Telegraph journo leaves foreign desk - The Guardian, 5th February 2007 Current position/role: also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Author Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: interview at patrickbishop.net (mp3 download) Broadcast media: Video: Frontline Club - Insight with Lt Col Stuart Tootal and Patrick Bishop: Can the British win in Afghanistan? Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: The Provisional IRA OCLC 59213276, 1988 (with Eamonn Mallie) Famous victory: the Gulf War OCLC 26929852, 1992 The winter war: the Falklands OCLC 10098411, 1982 (with John Witherow) Irish Empire OCLC 45146178, 1999 Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 OCLC 52334895, 2003 Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 OCLC 76935548, 2007 3 Para OCLC 137221363, 2007 Latest work: A good war OCLC 190777124, 2008 (his first novel) - press release Speaking/Appearances: email Richard Foreman for further information about books, events, etc - richardforeman.chalke@hotmail.co.uk Current debate:YouTube: FrontlineClub.com Insight with Lt Col Stuart Tootal and Patrick Bishop (VIDEO) - Commander of 3 Para Battle Group in Afghanistan, Lt Col Tootal, talks about the challenges the Group faced in Helmand: the fighting and the casualties, the logistics and the ongoing fight to win 'hearts and minds'

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Articles: When Brixton went up in flames - On 11 April 1981, tension between the police and youths led to Brixton being set aflame. Observer reporter Patrick Bishop recalls how he and photographer Neil Libbert covered a riot that marked a summer of discontent and changed the way that the country was policed - The Observer, 10th April 2011 Defence review: the can-do culture stays calm and just cracks on - Aside from the debate about equipment, the defence review is about people – the remarkable men and women who make up the three Services, with whom the public has a warm but ambivalent relationship - Daily telegraph, 16th September 2010 WWII: Saved by the bravery of a few - Daily Express, 16th July 2010 Battle of Britain: our finest hour - 70 years ago today the Battle of Britain began. It was, says Patrick Bishop, a triumph of national spirit – a time for modest heroes in the air and on the ground - Daily Telegraph, 10th July 2010 How we came to worship the demi-gods of the RAF - Our fascination with fighter pilots harks back to an age of gauche innocence when their bravery was visible - 'The First Post', 14th November 2008 Corporal Braveheart and the battle for Afghanistan - Sending troops to Afghanistan, defence secretary John Reid said he would be ‘very happy’ if they did not fire a shot. After more deaths last week, casualties are the highest since the second world war. Our correspondent reveals the bravery of men fighting an enemy that has too often been underestimated - The Times, 26th August 2007 Afghanistan's forgotten army dreams of a world of plenty - 20th September 2006 Nato's members must share burden of fighting - 13th September 2006 Everyone lost in the Lebanon war - It was a predictable paradox of the Lebanon war that the fiercest fighting would come after both sides had theoretically decided to stop - 14th August 2006 How to achieve the "new Middle East" - 27th July 2006

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